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    white stripes on Canon MX700, replace print head or circuitry problem?

    mission accomplished, and you sir, ghwellsjr, are the man! the new printhead arrived this afternoon and, behold, the new nozzle check pattern: I also snapped a comparison nozzle arrays on both old and new printheads, old: new: not much to tell, the nozzle arrays on the old seems fine...
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    white stripes on Canon MX700, replace print head or circuitry problem?

    Thanks. As a matter of fact, I already read and performed the test that you referred to back when I did manual head cleaning etc., and the windex sucked clear from both pads at the first go. Interestingly, you referring to a pump on the purge system clarified things for me. From the canon...
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    white stripes on Canon MX700, replace print head or circuitry problem?

    Update: Just have a phone conversation with service technician of Canon Jakarta. After describing the symptoms and the nozzle check result, he advised me to hold on ordering new print head, he said that there are three possibilities for the symptoms: 1. ink cartridge, which was immediately...
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    white stripes on Canon MX700, replace print head or circuitry problem?

    Thanks. I think i agree with you. Ordering new print head now. Thanks a lot. inoe
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    white stripes on Canon MX700, replace print head or circuitry problem?

    ghwellsjr, thanks for responding so quickly. So, you are sure that the nozzle check pattern indicates almost conclusively indicate print head problem instead of other components/circuitry on the printer? I understand that you cannot guarantee that it will fixed my problem, and I certainly...
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    Canon MX300 reset ink levels

    guesslux, I've tried wisnton procedure on my MX700, it worked. I didn't do it to reset ink level though, I was exploring it for some other problem I have. One ">" also take my MX700 to Shipping mode 2. However, if you keep pressing ">", once at a time, while keep watching the LCD, you'll...
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    white stripes on Canon MX700, replace print head or circuitry problem?

    ghwellsjr, many thanks for the reply. If it really is the print head that causes this, i guess it's a good news. However, i wanted to be absolutely sure that it is the print head (you said that replacing the print head almost always fixed this type of problem). Is there a procedure or...
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    white stripes on Canon MX700, replace print head or circuitry problem?

    I have PIXMA MX700 for over a year now. The last couple of days it has stripes on color printout, but full B/W text (and faxes) printed ok. I have done head cleaning, deep head cleaning, manual head cleaning, no improvement. The nozzle check pattern is as below: White horizontal stripes of...
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